“This is the area in which the San Andreas Fault meets the Cascadia Subduction Zone,” Clements said. “Because of that, we expect there to be a lot of earthquakes in this area.” A live map ...

New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...

MORGAN HILL, Calif. - A magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck east of Morgan Hill on Friday, the USGS reported. The earthquake was ...

This sudden jerk creates an earthquake. The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world. To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest.

That two inches -- the average distance the San Andreas fault moves each year -- has the potential to unleash an earthquake of epic proportions directly under the San Francisco and San Jose area ...